botcher

Example Sentences

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One of the most effective hucksters on eastern TV is a bashful botcher who muffs his lines, meanders off-camera, even mumbles his apologies for intruding on TViewers' time.

From Time Magazine Archive

But to prevent this botcher of a tailor spoiling it, I will make it myself with closed doors, so that no one sees me.

From The Mantle and Other Stories by Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich

"What a botcher is the most learned chemist compared with the root-fibres of the smallest plant," continued Siegwart.

From The Progressionists, and Angela. by Bolanden, Conrad von

If I'm a botcher, it's 'cos my father and my grandfather were botchers before me.

From Light by Wray, Fitzwater

Rachel was a botcher and a bungler, a very cobbler, beside Anne Turner.

From She Stands Accused by MacClure, Victor